http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:ChristineZehQueen&section=today deviantART RSS for by:ChristineZehQueen en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:49:34 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/27736354/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/27736354/ Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:39:30 PDT
Life has been SO AWESOME! AND GUESS WHAT??????? IT'S SUPPOSED TO RAIN SIX INCHES TOMORROW, SIX INCHES!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM SO SO SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!! Everyone's like, "It's gonna be a STORM, we have to drive you to school!" and I'm like HECK YEAH!!!!!!!!! JAPAN SEND US ALL YOUR TYPHOONS THEY'RE FREAKIN' AMAZING!!!!!!! I was talking with my friends earlier during break being all, "When it floods let's grab our plastic sleds and go BOATING!"

It's gonna be pretty dang hardcore. FREKAIN' AWESOME GUYS!!!!!!

Oh, this is random, just to let you guys know - Austin and I broke up in September. BUT IT'S TOTALLY OKAY! The reason was that I just didn't like him like that anymore, and felt it was best to be honest. It was a very, very mature breakup and everybody handled it really well, so we're still like best friends. I really love Austin, he's totally amazing, but yeah, we're just friends now. Just to let you all know.

Did I ever tell you guys he's a total football jock? -snicker- That was my favorite thing in the world when we were going out to say that I was dating a football jock. HEEHEEHEE. Ah well. HE'S STILL TOTALLY AMAZING so give virtual lovins to him he's the best!

OMG GUESS WHAT. I. AM GOING TO BE. A HERSHEY'S KISS. FOR HALLOWEEN. I AM SOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!!!!! I CAME UP WITH THE IDEA AT LIKE MIDNIGHT LAST NIGHT AND WENT CRAZY WITH JOY I AM SO EXCITED!!! I'm either going to wear brown pants and a Hershey shirt and then a Hershey's kiss hat, or a silvery dress in the shape of a Hershey's kiss with a little hat with the paper things that say "KISSES" on them, and either way I'm going to wear bracelets and a necklace made out of Hershey kisses and I'm going to kiss people. SHOULD BE FUN!!!!!!! I can't wait to go trick-or-treating SHUDDUP I'M NOT TOO OLD. And there's a couple parties that sound good.

OMG GUESS WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm helping design the homecoming float!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!! Everyone really likes my ideas, our theme is a Haunted Homecoming and the sophomores are Frankenstein, so we're doing a laboratory in this old stone castle thing, with machines and dry ice and a mad scientist, played by the guy who played Conrad Birdie in "Bye Bye Birdie," lol, we're going to straighten his 'fro and stuff, IT'S GOING TO ROCK! And there's going to be a parade and we get to throw candy at little children and go to the game and there's a dance AND IT'S GOING TO ROCK!!!

Okay funny story. The other day in Spanish, this guy was taking stuff out of his lunch and putting it on his desk, and when he was certain the teacher was looking he grabbed his bag of cashews and put them between his legs. The teacher was all, "What did you just put in your lap?" and he was all innocently, "What?" and she kept asking, saying, "You put something in your lap!" and finally she asked, "What do you have between your legs??" and he said, "What, my nuts?" and pulled out his bag of nuts. IT WAS HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!

High school's pretty good! I GOT A 105/100 ON MY MATH TEST!!!!!!!!!! I am so proud because math was CRAZY last year and I feel like I get it this year and this year is going to be so FUN!!!!! I have like twenty new friends and I pretty much like my classes - overall, it's okay. I really like the people, though. It's kind of a long day - I've started reading a ton of kids books and going back on Neopets so I have something really light to do, that doesn't involve the attention span that school does haha.

Okay I need to go study for a major World Civ test. LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!! Tell me what's going on in your life I miss you! Talk to you later and have an AMAZING HALLOWEEN!!!!!! SPLURGE ON CANDY!!! MAKE AWESOME COSTUMES! FLING CANDY CORN! HAPPY OCTOBER!!!!!!!!!

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It's California, people. IT'S EXCITING. PHWEEEEEEEE I LOVE GRAY SKIES!!!!! They make me think. I'm totally going to call Austin and some people later and see if they want to run around in the wind.

I woke up thinking about our generation this morning, for some reason. Don't you love it? I'm super proud of us...we're so individual, so our own. I love all the fashion, all the color we've put into our identity - I feel like we're proud to be so full of life and love showing it. And we seem to get it. Seriously, if you think about it, kids today GET IT - get that we need to fix the environment and accept each other. Think about Congress in forty years or so. It won't just be white guys anymore, and the racial prejudice will be gone. There will be men and women of all ethnicities. We've grown up in a world where discrimination is drawing to a close. Doesn't that rock?

MAN I LOVE LIFE. I've been thinking about that a lot recently, too. I all the light everywhere, in the small things – running through sprinklers, bright blue skies, hearing your favorite song on the radio, and making all of the good moments come together into a wonderful dance of life. Laughing, hugging, and holding hands, being crazy with your friends – there’s so much beauty everywhere, and I love being young in this wonderful world to discover it all. I still have time to figure everything out, and I’m beginning to realize I can take on the world.

And now, I believe I'm going to go eat spaghetti and write for a while. I love the weekends. See you guys!!

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I just went out and danced in the moonlit street.

I AM GOING TO BE SIXTEEN IN THREE MONTHS OMG THAT IS SO COOL. THAT IS THE AWESOMEST AGE EVEEEEEEEEEEEEER.

Austin is officially the best guy in the world. <3 And he knows why.

My friends are AWESOME. My family rocks. I love life.

Keep on dancin' through, guys! I love you all!

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/26717033/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/26717033/ Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:58:06 PDT
MY NEW HIGH SCHOOL IS THE BOMB. I HAVE A CLASS ON THE SECOND FLOOR.

I have an adorable boyfriend. ;D
MY FRIENDS ARE AMAZING.

I AM SOOOOOO EXCITED FOR SCHOOL TO START!

Love you guys! <3

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/26265599/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/26265599/ Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:25:28 PDT
I went to New York for a couple of weeks, which was AMAZING...god, you have NO idea how many hot guys there are back east. IT'S SO FREAKY...you just turn around and there they are...lol. I had this one huge flip out session where there was this BEAUTIFUL man who was, yeah, like twenty five, in this diner we went to, and I kept getting up "to get a new fork" or whatever, and after a while his two friends started catching on and nudging him and laughing and my whole family, including my grandma, would start whispering to me whenever he walked by...lol hormones. But it was still really fun. Anyway I had a GREAT time.

My sister is going to college, as you all know, and she's renting this MANSION - seriously, it's a mansion - for only $500 a month in her town. I'm talking green marble fireplaces, a chandelier in EVERY room, decorated, carved, 20 or 30 foot ceilings, beautiful doors, servant rooms, underground tunnels, old, grand furniture, four floors, towers, grand staircases, stain glass windows, magnificent flooring...oh man, it was AWESOME. I stayed with her for a couple of days and had a great time, we went to the beach and stuff and it was awesome.

We went into the city for a couple of days, too...I LOVE NEW YORK CITY SO MUCH. There's so much life and color and music everywhere...I love being surrounded by people all the time. Sitting and just watching is like hearing music, or a fast-beat poem or whatever. I did a bunch of shopping, rode the subway, listened to snooty guys talking about the toxic jean jacket that they were selling for $750, went out to dinner, saw "Chicago"...oh man, good times.

Anyway I'm home now. Haven't been up to that much...hanging out with Austin and friends and now I'm doing an acting workshop. I'm having a great summer so far! What have you guys been up to?

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AWESOME movie. I love Tom Hanks.

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I couldn't fall asleep last night, and so finally after hours of listening to music and contemplating life, I went downstairs at 4:30 and played the guitar for an hour. It was REALLY relaxing to be playing and singing, even really quietly, while the sun came up. Anyway I figured out most of the song "Long Time Coming" by Oliver James, which has been on my list forever, so it felt good. I went back upstairs and finall slept from 8 to 10.

THEN Tessa came over around 10:30 and we went and got my hair cut and then went out to pizza with Austin, which was really fun, then came back to my house and tried to do the "Thriller Dance," then biked to the drug store looking for hair spray, bought nail polish, biked half an hour to get to a thrift store, the thrift store was closed, so we wandered around the dollar store for an hour hitting each other with pool noodles and keeping Tessa away from knives and then bought Italian ice and plastic spoons and ate them outside away from the sketchy guys.

Then we biked home and it was 110 degrees so we stopped at a park and the nail polish exploded and Austin and I kissed under a tree for like half an hour. xDDD Tessa sat watching us and making occasional remarks about how she felt single.

We came home, I filmed Tessa and Austin being weird, they left, I slept for three hours ate and now I'm on facebook.

Time for bed.

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BEST THING EVER. xDD ROCKIN' SOCKS IN MY POCKET BLOCKS. AWESOMEST SONG EVER!

In other news, I got my braces on this morning. But I took two Ibuprofen before they put them on SO I FEEL AWESOME! NO PAIN! NO STAIN!

Last weekend Austin and I had our first kiss! We were sitting on a trampoline having a glowstick fencing battle that turned into a tickle fight, and eventually I dared him to kiss me. Good stuff.

Okay that's everything of importance. GO BACK TO YOUR LIVES.
YOU ARE A PIRATE.

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/25319264/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/25319264/ Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:04:45 PDT
I love it, man. I love life. I love my friends. And I have nothing to worry about. Nothing at all. Just tomorrow to wonder about...and until then I'll go sit out on my balcony with a pillow and look at the stars.



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]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/25226025/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/25226025/ Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:38:34 PDT
Today has officially been one of the best days of my life! I just feel...so centered and joyful and ready to dance for the rest of time! I LOVE LIFE SO MUCH!!!!!!!

Okay, so you know how one of the most important things to me is to just be completely myself around everyone? I know exactly who I am, but being yourself all the time, being centered with everyone...it takes practice. And I'm really curious to know what everyone in my grade thinks of me, and especially what my teachers think of me. So today...I found out.

It was the ninth grade award assembly for like the last two periods today. Everybody got a certificate of achievement to show that they're graduating to the high school, and here's the other stuff I got:

President's Gold Award for Educational Excellence, showing I've had a 4.0 for the last three years
Academic Excellence certificate for Geography
Academic Excellence certificate for Biology
Academic Excellence certificate for Classics (my English class)
Academic Excellence certificate for Spanish 1

OH AND REALLY QUICKLY GUESS WHAT I GOT MY MATH FINAL BACK AND I GOT A 90.4 % ON IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M SO HAPPY THIS CLASS HAS BEEN THE HARDEST OF MY LIFE AND AFTER ALL THE TEARS AND TANTRUMS I GOT A SOLID A IN THE CLASS!!!!!!! LIFE HAS MEANING, I TELL YOU, MEANING!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, here's the BEST part.

I got a plaque for one of the four big awards they give out, a memorial award for a certain guy. Here's what it said on the certificate:

"This award is presented to an individual who has demonstrated a sense of humor with others, a positive attitude towards school, and friendliness and helpfulness to all in the school community."

Me and the guy who played Conrad Birdie, an AWESOME kid named Eddie, got this award. But wait! There's more!

My classics teacher and my geography teacher presented these awards...and they are like my two favorite teachers. My classics teacher is...my idol. I have never admired anyone more in my entire life. She's exactly what I want to be when I grow up, and I love her so much. She also directed the musical and stuff, and she's just...incredible.

Anyway, she talked about me...called me daring, a good friend, a bunch of other stuff...and then also said she would go to Starbucks with me anytime.

That sentence alone was better than any plaque or certificate or anything.

And then my CRAZY but awesome geography teacher announced my name by singing a parody of a song from the musical..."Everything is Christine...!"

It was the best day ever.

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Aaand...as of today at lunch, we're officially going out.

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It's awfully nice when you're completely stressed about your Algebra II Trig final and you get a random IM from him just to see how you're doing. He's a complete dork in a sense - when I went to see a play with him it took him about an hour to put his arm around my waist (he moved his hand gradually closer the whole time, it was really hilarious), he sprinted to catch up with me walking home just to ask how my day was and then ran back to catch his bus, and gets really nervous about how he's acting towards me, but I'm completely on to him and it's adorable. It's wonderful to have a guy care that much about you.

And it makes math a little more doable.

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/25050746/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/25050746/ Sun, 31 May 2009 12:20:11 PDT
Seriously, it's completely ROCKIN'. It would take HOURS to write out everything I've done in the last million months, but here are some of the highlights:

THE MUSICAL!!!!!!!! Bye Bye Birdie finished two or three weeks ago, and it was the BEST single experience of my entire life. As some of you might know, I made my singing and acting debut as Rosie, and it was AMAZING. I had no idea I could sing, seriously, but I totally can when it comes to stage singing. I have never been more proud of myself. Seriously, acting is something in the back of my mind I was always like, "Man, it would be my DREAM to excel at this!" and then I was just lazy and never got around to joining anything. I worked with the guy who taught us all the music one on one a lot and really grew to love him, he's SUCH an awesome teacher, became even closer to my idol, my English teacher and the director for the show, and made TONS of new friends. It was INCREDIBLE. I've been told that I was fantastic, met a bunch of little kids after all the shows who wanted to meet me...but best of all was just sharing the experience. I have found myself and this is something I am going to pursue.

Second...there's this guy. He's super cute and has the best hair ever. I'll keep you updated.

A ton of my family visited for the show, including all three of my grandparents, my aunt and uncle and one of my cousins, AND KATE MY SISTER!!!!!!! Kate just left at four this morning (sue me for not waking up to say goodbye) but we had THE BEST rockin' time EVER!!!!!!!! Last night we wound off the whole thing by going out for coffee, going shopping with my mom which was ACTUALLY SUPER FUN because I got incredibly hyper and starting dancing around the super market singing a theme song I made up to Jelly Belly, which went, "Jelly Belly, WHAT'S YOUR FLAVOR!" and having Kate yanking on me going, "WILL YOU SHUT UP!" then picking cherries for hours and just being hyper and crazy and singing the Captain Planet and The Magic School Bus theme songs, etc., and finally watching The Emperor's New Groove, eating two Dove chocolate ice cream bars each, a bowl of popcorn and a ton of Cheezits. We danced, we sang, we kicked butt, we ate, we talked, and it was pretty much the awesomest Saturday night ever.

ALSO...I'M REDOING MY ROOM THIS SUMMER. IT'S GOING TO ROCK.

Here's a list of some stuff I'm going to do:

Paint the walls light purple
Paint the trim around the windows & mirrors darker purple
Rearrange my furniture a little bit
Get a bean bag chair
Hang rainbow paper lanterns around my window
Put up a bunch of new posters! So far, I have bought:

-The Lion King Broadway poster (OMG I FORGOT TO TALK ABOUT THAT WE WENT TO LION KING ON BROADWAY, IT'S ON TOUR IN SACRAMENTO RIGHT NOW AND IT WAS INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
-an Australia movie poster WITH THE BEAUTIFUL HUGH JACKMAN!!!!!
-The Beatles - Yellow Submarine poster
-Relient K poster
-AN AWESOME OPOSSUM YELLOWCARD POSTER
-Charles Mingus poster (HE'S A FREAKIN' AWESOME BARI SAX JAZZ PLAYER)
-Get ready...AN EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE POSTER!!!!! HECK YEAH!!!
-...and an AMAZING "Imagination" poster that has this big tree and all these stars and stuff and IT ROCKS

And then keep a bunch of the other posters I already have.

OH, AND:
I'm going to get a bunch of those corkboards so I can hang up pictures of my friends and stuff.

PRETTY AWESOME HUH?????????????

Okay so now I have finals to study for...BUT SCHOOL GET'S OUT IN TWO WEEKS!!! YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSS!!!

Okay, so here's the thing. I'm going to high school next year. I'm totally ready and I'm REALLY ready to meet new people. I feel completely ready to "broaden my horizons," in a sense, and just EXPAND and make new friends!!!!! I'm really excited. Plus, the classes are going to be really great. It's just awesome.

But on the other hand, I'm really going to miss my junior high. I have LOVED it. I was in Jazz Band for two years (our last concert was last week. I had a moment afterwards where I went up on stage, with the lights off and the audience leaving and I just starting crying. It's been a wonderful experience) and I'm going to miss my band teacher SO much (though I convinced him to get a Facebook YES) and especially my English teacher. She's hard to describe, but...she's everything I want to be. Amazing at English, Drama (she directed Bye Bye Birdie, she's in charge of drama at our school) and she can READ people SO well. She's funny, the coolest person in the school...she's just my idol.

Anyway, I'm DETERMINED not to lose contact with her or my band teacher, or all my eighth grade friends!!! There's seriously like twenty kids in the eighth grade who I love to death...so we're going to chill this summer. OOOOH I SHOULD INVITE THEM... ]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/24307241/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/24307241/ Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:00:25 PDT
I'm extremely proud to have done it, and proud of everyone else who participated. And you know, if you don't support the idea of gay, lesbian, transgender, or whatever else, here's the thing: You're free to feel how you feel about this, you're free to have opinions based on personal preference, religion, or anything else.

And by being silent, you're saying that you support that freedom - the freedom to live how you want to live. Even if you don't personally agree with it, you support that these people have a right to their freedom, the same way you do.

That's what this country's all about.

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/23995863/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/23995863/ Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:20:14 PDT Listening is an Act of Love, which is a collection of short stories about American people. It's totally amazing - they're all true stories that were recorded and written down, about people's favorite aunt, or working in steel mills, or finding their birth mom after thirty years apart, from losing their love to 9-11 to finding their love in an Elementary School janitor. They're amazing - they're funny, witty, beautiful, and have made me laugh and cry. If you ever need something like that, I totally recommend it. It really is a connection to all the other people of our country.

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/23974652/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/23974652/ Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:52:06 PDT
Rehearsal was AMAZING - I sang some of my parts better than I'd ever done before, and it just felt good. I had so much fun! Then after, I hung out with Cassie and Alina and Jack and Eddie and made them all laugh and just chatted and did homework for like an hour and it was wonderful. After Jack and Eddie left, Cassie and Alina and I got crazy and had a great time. To quote a couple of things that were said,

"I wish I had a butt-mirror."
"I need to take butt-twitching lessons from Mrs. G."
"You know, I never used to look at women's butts but now I can't stop!" (DO.NOT.ASK. It is NOT as dirty as it seems. xDD)
"If the world was Christine, then I'd be happy."

It was a great day and I feel wonderful and loved. My friends rock, life rocks, Bye Bye Birdie rocks, and times are good.

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/23874984/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/23874984/ Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:44:03 PDT
...WHAT did I ever see in him?? How did I ever get involved that way? Now that it's over I can smile and say: WHAT did I ever see in HIIIIIIIM?

I'm just a Spanish tamale ACCORDING to Mae. Right off the boat from the tropics FAR far away. ...Which is kind of funny...since where I come from is - ALLENSTOWN, PA! SPANISH! Okay, Mae, I'll BE Spanish! Just wait until I marry ALLLLLBEEEEEEEEERTO.......!

NOW MY LIFE IS ROSIE! SINCE I FOUND MY ROSIE! WITH A GIRL LIIIKE ROSIE! HOW COULD I BE BLUUUE! Hand in hand we'll mosey! Me and...little Rosie! We will be so COZY by a fire built for twooooooooo!

Oh, I once heard a poem that GOES! A rose, is a rose, is a rose! Well, I don't agree! Take it from me - there's one rose sweeter than ANY that grows...and that's my Rosie! I'm so glad she chose me! Life is one! Sweet! Beautiful song! To me!

Now my life is Ro- OH WE'LL BE HAPPY I KNOW!
sieeeeeeeeee.... OFF TO THE PREACHER WE'LL GO!

I think I have my Bye Bye Birdie Song's memorized.

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/23564031/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/23564031/ Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:20:21 PST
Dang, I don't even know where to START. It's been like a month and so much has happened...so many amazing things...

I'll start with the musical. Rehearsals have been absolutely INCREDIBLE. We've only choreographed one of the songs, but we've six songs so far, and I've been having SO much fun!!!!!!! I have a bunch of solos and stuff, and staying after and working on them has been a blast. Confidence in general has never been an issue for me with anything, and I totally don't mind singing in front of people or criticism, since it's not really something I do a lot anyway - BUT the singing guy told me I have a good voice!! It's really fun. My co-star type guy, Jack (who, by the way, is the world's best comedian. I'm so serious, someday he's going to have his own TV show and it will be America's favorite, he's an absolutely INCREDIBLE actor and in real life he's just...Jack. He's a jerk sometimes but he's completely wonderful.) Anyway, Jack is the kind of guy who you can flirt with four hours and no one takes it seriously so it's really fun. Jack and I constantly flirt with each other, like on Wednesday I had just finished a peanut butter sandwich and he came up and was like, "Peanut butter...my favorite food in the world. I love peanut butter. I now love you more than was ever possible." And then we started making all of these horribly perverted jokes about how I was going to lure him to my room in the dead of night with my peanut butter breath...I mean, it's ridiculous, but it's so fun. The musical just ROCKS and I'm have so much fun with it.

School has been going really well lately, though it's a lot more fun when I know I have rehearsal to look forward to. I got straight A's again and therefore, in filling out my high school planner, was able to go into all the Honors classes I wanted to, etc. All my friends are doing really well, too, and a CRAZY number of people have started going out. There's so many AMAZING couples right now, it's totally awesome. I've made a bunch of new guy friends, too, which makes me really happy.

Last week, the Humanities and Classics classes went on a trip to this incredibly famous place in Oregon, which is like the acting capital of the United States, and that was AMAZING, too. I'll post pictures from it a little later.

Basically, times are absolutely amazing. I've been sick like the last two days so I'm planning on resting as much as my work load allows me this weekend, but I'll feel better soon. Apart from that, life's perfect, and I'm so glad to be me.

Love you guys lots and talk to you soon!

Oh, and by the way, Mary - we need to talk more. I've said hi like twice over the past two months and I'm seriously Mary-deprived. So, anytime, feel free to send me a note! That totally goes for everyone else, too. I really only come on dA like once a week at the moment, but I'll get back to you as soon as I can!

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/23221761/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/23221761/ Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:17:13 PST
...It's also slightly problematic because I don't sing. xDD This isn't a modesty thing here, I just DON'T do it. I have the potential for a good voice because I have a good ear but I just don't do it that often. Time to sign up for lessons, haha.

BUT DUDE I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!! The musical's called "Bye Bye Birdie" and I get a bunch of solos and a whole dance number to myself AND I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!!!

Guys, I'm so EXCITED!!!!!!!! I can't WAIT!

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/23163143/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/23163143/ Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:23:00 PST

It was pretty darn close, I could tell. This guy likes pretty much all the girls in the entire school, but he started kissing my hair...and then my ear...and then my cheek...and then I started laughing at him. xDD However, I felt special.

Let's see, let's see...life lately? Better than I could possibly put into a quick journal. Band is AMAZING, I'm playing so well it's scary. I auditioned for the spring musical, which is Bye Bye Birdie, and pretty much blew everyone out of the water with during the acting audition for the lead, though my singing audition sucked. xDD Lol, ah well. I probably won't get the main character Rosie now, but I know I'll get something. And whatever part I get, it's going to rock!

What else...I've made some new amazing friends...I'm getting really close to some new people...I'm going to try to get into a smaller, more creative based high school next year that doesn't have a lot of homework but instead has huge projects that include movies and dancing and stuff...

I've been myself. More than any other time in my life, I feel like myself. I'm centered. I'm funny, I'm out-going, I'm dancing, and I feel comfortable and wonderful every second of the the day. Nothing, my friends, nothing in the world is better than figuring out who you are and being that person.

The only bad thing about right now is that I'm getting braces right before high school band auditions, but oh well. I'll get used to playing with them.

What can I say, guys? Life rocks.

Oh, and Happy Valentine's Day!

Love you all,
~Christine

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/22895375/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/22895375/ Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:24:54 PST
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I'm going to go around singing this all day tomorrow. OMG I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY THIS ON MY TRUMPET.

I love Tigger.
He is my idol.

HE'S BOUNCY TROUNCY FLOUNCY POUNCY, FULL OF
FUN FUN FUN!!!!!!
BUT THE MOST WONDERFUL THING ABOUT TIGGER ISSSSSS...
HE'S THE ONLY ONE! YES, HE'S THE ONLY ONE!!!!!!!!

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/22876256/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/22876256/ Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:15:22 PST
I know. It's a scary thought.

BUT ANYWAY HAHA here's a quiz my friends tagged me to do. They seemed to think it fitting.

1. [ ] Forgot to put the lid on the blender, turned it on, and had everything fly out (HAHA I wish. That would be the best movie ever.)

2. [x] Gotten your head stuck between the stair rails

3. [x] Broken a chair by leaning back in it (Chair's fault. Not mine.)

4. [x] Had gum fall out of your mouth while you were talking (Yeah, but so has everyone. Unless you have like perfect tongue coordination.)

5. [x] Choked on your own spit while you were talking. (Haha. Duh.)

6. [ ] Had people tell you that you are blonde when you're not, or had people tell you that your blonde highlights are going to your head. (I'm a brownie. )

7. [X] Been caught staring at your crush by your crush (But he was staring back. SO HAHAHHAA. His fault for being an intoxicating sixth grader at the time.)

8. [x] Have looked for something for at least 5 min then realized it was in your hand (This happens about every other day.)

9. [x] Tried to push open a door that said pull

10. [x] Tried to pull open a door that said push

11. [ ] Have actually believed someone when they said that they knew how to make a love-potion (HAHAHAHAA. Well. No.)

12. [x] Have hit yourself in the process of trying to hit something else (Sadly.)

13. [x] Have tripped and fallen UP the stairs (THE STAIR'S FAULT.)

14. [ ] Have actually exploded marshmallows in the microwave (I have made marshmallows in the microwave, though.)

15. [ ] Have gotten gum stuck in your hair

16. [x] Had gum fall out of your mouth while trying to blow a bubble (I have NEVER blown a bubble. NEVER. NOT ONCE. BUBBLE GODS, WHY DO YOU ABANDON ME SO???)

17. [ ] Have had the juice from a mini tomato squirt out and hit somebody else when you bit into it

18. [ ] Have had your drink come out your nose because you were laughing so hard

19. [x] Have called one of your good friends by the wrong name (Frequently.)

20. [x] Have skinned your toe because you were playing soccer or kickball with flip flops on or you were barefoot (OH GOD. I AM THE WORLD'S WORST SOCCER PLAYER. And I kick with my toes. xDD YES. BIG LEAGUE, HERE I COME!)

21. [x] Have put a sticker on your forehead, forgot it was there, and went out in public with it on (Both on purpose and not on purpose.)

22. [x] Have fallen out of a moving vehicle (I jumped off a hayride once. It hurt.)

23. [x] Have run into a closed door (Many times. This is always one of those things that's really embarrassing.)

25. [ ] Searched for your cell phone while you were talking on it (Not yet, haha.)

26. [x] It has taken you longer than 5 min to get a joke (YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAHguilty.)

27. [ ] Have gotten your hair stuck in a blow dryer

28. [x] Have gotten your hair stuck in a fan (OH LORD. That was so scary.)

29. [x] Tripped on a crack in the sidewalk (THIS IS ALSO EMBARRASSING.)

30. [x] Said o'clock after saying how many min after the hour, example: 5:30 o'clock, or 6:15 o'clock

31. [ ] After someone told you that there was gum on the ground, you stepped in it

32. [x] Put on a white shirt even though you already knew it was raining outside (Not on PURPOSE...just...you know.)

33. [x] Have ever walked up to a stranger because you thought they were someone else (HAHA. So you're talking to them, and then they turn around and you realize it's the wrong person, so you avert their gaze and keep talking, as if it was someone else all along...)

34. [ ] Ever been kicked out of a grocery store/off their property

35. [ ] Touched the stove, the curling iron, a hot pan, etc when its on, even though you knew it was hot

36. [x] Taken off your clothes to change into something else then accidentally put the old clothes back on

37. [x] Wondered why something wasn't working then realized it wasn't plugged in

38. [ ] Put the cereal in the fridge, or put the milk in the cupboard

39. [ ] Walked into a pole (NO BUT I WISH!!!)

40. [ ] Wore two different earrings or shoes by accident/stolen someones shoes by accident

41. [x] Put your shirt on backwards/inside-out without realizing it then left your house (I've done that with pants, too.)

42. [ ] Tried to take a picture of someone's eye with the flash on (HAHA THAT'S HILARIOUS.)

4... ]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/22863722/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/22863722/ Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:57:47 PST
...and then you wake up the next morning with a REALLY bad sore throat?

I know! It's a complete day ruiner!

I HATE HATE HATE being sick. I slept like all morning so I actually feel a lot better, but I live across the street from my school and I HATE hearing the bells and knowing I'm not there! I don't know why, but I always feel really guilty whenever I'm sick. I have no idea why. I'm going to try do some homework in a little while, if I feel up to it. I basically just feel kind of wiped out. I probably got it from one of the other trumpets in band, haha, they were sick yesterday.

Piffle.
Sore throats are mean.

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/22808614/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/22808614/ Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:14:52 PST
And not just to me, brothers! By no means! It also came to a very fine friend of mine, Madame Mary the Awesome.

A gasp filled my throat and I leapt to my computer! I turned it on, drumming my hands against the desk, eager for it to turn on and bestow its flickering light upon me! The windows icon flashed in my face, and my impatience reached tantamount. I leapt from my chair and prayed to the sun gods of awesomeness to give me patience for another five seconds while my deviantart booted up. They obliged. Somehow...after a minute or two that lasted longer than a lifetime...I logged in. HOW LONG IT HAD BEEN...and yet how many ideas had come to inhabit my soul!

For I knew...just as Mary knew across the country...that destiny was shaping our lives. That a great force was at work! That two characters...young and bold and far too headstrong for their own good...were being drawn together by the radical hands of fate. Their paths were soon to cross, and their lives would be touched forevermore...for once they met each other, there was no going back.

And it was on this day...THIS DAY OF DAYS...That a young man named Bullseye found his soul mate...Garin...and suddenly, their lives had meaning. Here was another spirit whom they could annoy and love for the rest of their natural lives. THUNDER ROCKED THE HEAVENS!!! SQUID WRITHED IN THE SEA!!! AND IT WAS A DAY OF DESTINY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAA!!!

...Okay maybe that's taking it a little too far.

Basically, about a year ago, I thought, Hey, I want to roleplay Bullseye, and Mary thought, Hey, I want to roleplay Garin, and Bullseye was like, Hey I want to flirt with Garin, and Garin was like WHAAAAAAAAT???

But that doesn't sound nearly as dramatic.

WHATEVER THE CASE - you choose the more believable story, folks - it remains a FACT that roughly a year ago, Mary and I decided to start roleplaying Bullseye and Garin. And let me just say, it was one of the best decisions of my life.

Now, my friends, I must give a little blurb about it.

First of all, Mary's writing style - if you ever have the opportunity to roleplay with her, consider yourself LUCKY, dude. She has the most AMAZING style, you basically know that she's going to grow up to be some super famous author or a columnist or something, because she literally puts HERSELF - feelings, thoughts - into her writing. Mary's replies, every one of them, in one point or another, make me CRACK up, because her wit, her charm, her sarcasm, her CREATIVITY all intervene and make life amazing in the roleplay. Little things, little political stereotypes or whatever, find their casual way into her writing and you find yourself CRACKING up at something that was just a couple words, a couple words as easy as the wave of your hand - and yet you remember them. God, girl - you have TALENT. You say you want to be a writer? I believe it. You were born with humor on your fingers. It's part of you, I can tell - and you have no idea how excited I get just to read your replies. Seriously, whenever I see a note from Mary that's part of our roleplay, I get so excited because I know another installment in awesomeness is coming forth. Reading Mary's writing is an adventure every time, a little slice of a world of humor and adventure from the mind of a teenager like Garin.

Which leads me to my second part...Garin. GARIN. Oh, my lord, people. Garin is THE AWESOMEST CHARACTER there EVER was. Everything you writer about her, Mary, just makes everyone fall in love with her, she's just so cool. I don't exactly know what it is about her - that's she the ind of girl that isn't afraid to speak her mind, that she has all these dark little quirks and yet still worries about stuff, makes her real somehow. There's something really honest in her, even though she does carry a knife and has a sharp tongue and all that. But man, you write her so well. Mary, CONGRATULATIONS, you have made one of the best characters of the year. You've built her up well through exactly the right combination of thought and dialogue, and she's the kind of character the audience ends up really thinking about.

And we're not the only ones! Let me just tell you what a big role Garin has come to play in Bullseye's life!

For those who don't know what's happened in our roleplay, perhaps it's necessary to give a basic summary. To date, here is what has been going on in the world of Bullseye and Garin over the last year. Though technically, the roleplay has only spanned over the time period of a two days or so. So Mary and I have been using phrases like, "Man, was it really yesterday? It seemed like a whole year ago that Bullseye dunked squid on her head..... ]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/22701916/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/22701916/ Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:13:13 PST
But basically, finals are taking over my life so I'll talk to you guys more about it later. xDD Good luck people!

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/22620723/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/22620723/ Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:49:40 PST
Kate and I are listening to ridiculously loud ridiculous rock music and ROCKING ROCKING ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCKING OUT AND DANCING LIKE CRAZY!!!!!!!!!! We just did the HOTTEST series of dance moves together to "Stacy's Mom" and then I ran into the laundry basket AND LIFE IS ABSOLUTELY PERFECT.

This is the way Fridays should be. Music, sisters, and complete rockage of life.

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/22550794/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/22550794/ Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:17:18 PST I love rocking out.
I love it when you get those totally crazy spazzes of energy and you make up a rock song where the only lyric is "Squishy" and you sing around dancing to it for your sister's amusement for like five minutes before your mom comes up and asks why there are wolves howling.
I love it when guys tell you they love you even if they're just your friends.
I love partner dancing in P.E. to your ex-locker buddy who dyed his blonde hair brown (long story).
I love making my band teacher groan when I tell him that his lunch box brings out the color in his eyes.
I love my sister.
I love pizza.
I love Mary's awesome excuses.
I love the little bows you put on Christmas packages.
I love balloons.
I love it when you have a really weird math problem and you were the only one who understood it and the teacher tells you your method was better than his, which is the first time in my life I've been the best at math.
I love my hair.
I love people who wear hair ties on their wrists.
I love men with British accents.
I love making crazy movies with my friends.
I love mirrors.
I love my English teacher.
I love knowing exactly who you are.
I love it when you are totally yourself and you realize with each day that it's becoming easier and easier to be yourself around everyone.
I love being hyper.
I love entertaining people.
I love going to the movies.
I love my friends.
I love laughing.
I love it when you're with your friends and you can't stop laughing.
I love it when you're walking down the street at night with your sister and your dad and it's three of you and you feel like you should be in a film where all of you would like flip your hair and it would be in slow motion and stuff and you feel all cool and powerful.
I love it when you're in art class and the teacher announces that you get to do a free draw for a week, you just have to pick a theme and draw a couple different pictures all relating to and evolving off of that theme, and you pick Animals and Food Corresponding in Randomosity
(Note: I love making up new words)
and then you draw a huge giraffe looking at a squirrel who is holding up a waffle and a strawberry for the giraffe and who is standing on top of a turtle that has a tootsie roll pop in its mouth.
I love the moon.
I love the fact that I am a lucky person.
I love the world.
I love thinking up new ideas.
I love life.
I love being random.
I love music.
I love bouncy houses.
I love love.

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/22330403/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/22330403/ Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:25:07 PST
No cute British teenage guys, lol, but there WERE like twenty little kids on the dance floor, including this adorable little Australian two year old and this AMAZING five year old who could do all these AMAZING moves and was totally awesome at the worm. I danced with a bunch of little kids and Kate and some random people, including a really hilarious bald guy who told me my dance moves were "rockin'." It was a great party.

LOVE YOU GUYS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/22290895/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/22290895/ Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:17:02 PST
This was a sexy year. I'm so not kidding. Especially for me. You want to know why?

Because this year I have found out so much about myself.

Time for self reflection.

So many teenagers don't know who they are. I've never felt isolated from myself, but over the last year, really, I've discovered exactly who I am, and I love it.

What I've discovered, mostly, is that I know who I am when I am truly myself. I know that I have very good insight into myself and my own personality, that my friends respect me, that I have the weirdest thoughts just like your average teenager but that I'm one of the luckiest people in the world, because I have friends and a family who always listen to me and help me, I'm very social and love people and can read them, and that I love myself.

I know that my biggest personal insecurity is that I am unable to be the person I know I am around everybody, because I want the entire world to know ME, not as some boring person, or as someone you can't respect. I want everyone to see me for who I really, really am. They can judge how they will - but if I'm not myself around everyone, I'll feel I haven't reached out, haven't connected. I know it takes practice. But I want to be the kind of person that when you meet her, you go in your head, "Dang, she's cool. I would feel comfortable going to her with any problem, even though I don't know her, because she's so good with people."

And in ways, I know I want to be a rockstar. Not literally, but I know that with my life I want to be an artist. Writer, painter, actress, director - I don't know what yet. But I know that I'm headed into an art to truly become myself and show the entire world. I want to be an influence, and I want to be a rocking one.

In some ways, that's one of the coolest things about being young. I want the whole world to see me and even if they don't like or agree with or can't even STAND me, I want them to KNOW ME. I want to be me forever and love every minute of it. That's the miracle about being young. We have a whole life ahead, and once you realize it, once you figure out who you are, once you're able to know what you want, the party never stops.

But in ways, it's also the scariest time of your life. There's so many things I still don't know. So many beliefs - what you choose to believe about life, death - none of the answers seem straight forward. Once I figure out what I'm going to do, though, it's all going to fall into place. I believe that for certain. The fears of inadequacy or of your own power, or lack of, or your place in the world or even of your own life - they will fall, maybe never resolve, but calm once my life starts up.

And believe me, baby, once MY life starts up - my TIMES aren't going to settle down. I'm on a roller coaster. I'm not going to let myself become old after college. And I know, maybe this is what all young people say - but I'm on a mission. Some of it includes the basics that are vastly wonderful - for example, falling in love and having children and knowing that my lover and our children will be the most precious things to me on Earth. Aiming for the littlest, silliest, craziest things that to a teenager girl now seem cool - for example, having fireworks and rocking out at my own marriage to a goregeous, British boy (I hope, haha) that don't even seem to matter, but occupy maybe your most unimportant daydreams. And bigger stuff - figuring out my religion - not just as in is there a God and heaven, but the point of my own existence.

What I want to do, though, is have a life of love and glitter and MEANING. I've always looked inside myself - more, now, as I grow older - and as I realize who I am I know that even my silliest or most important insecurity reflects my desire to have a wonderful life, by telling me to be more outgoing, more loving, or to be a better person.

I know I'm not perfect. But the fact that I know that, that's what makes it important. I try my hardest to see everything through others' eyes and see all sides of everything, to understand, to make the world a better and more rocking place.

Wow, I just spent ages talking about myself. Okay, I'm not trying to sound totally self-centered here, though I know I'm not the most modest person ever. What I'm saying is - I want to shine, and by learning who I am, I think maybe I can. Who knows? If I have respect from people like you, then someday, maybe I will.

And just hear this - if you ever need attention yourself, I will listen. It won't just be about me. I love you all - all my friends and all of this world.

Speaking of friends - that has been another amazing part of 2008. I don't know where I would be without them. Friends let you be yourself around them, and you can become the shining outlet you somed... ]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/22039392/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/22039392/ Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:46:35 PST Edit One: OKAY BEFORE I FORGET. I'm stealing that quiz thing that did, where you can ask me ANY questions you want, except for like where I live, etc. That's like the awesomest idea ever! So yes, if you have any questions, ask away!

Today was totally awesome!!! I completely hyper and crazy in art but my still life wasn't working for me at all so I told everyone I wanted to do a ceremonial burning of my paper because it was pathetic but my art teacher said I could just paint over it tomorrow so my dramatic dreams were put to an abrupt halt. How sad.

There's this one really funny eighth grade boy in art who I've been joking around with a lot lately in art, though, and he weirded me out a little today because he kept walking past me and tickling me and stuff, lol. And then he held my hand later in the hallway. That was a little awkward. But for the most part, art was good.

And then we had a group test in math that the class so wasn't ready for, so about halfway through my friend Eliot and I gave up and drew killer llamas on the back of our papers, earning us exasperated looks from the one incredibly smart person in our group, and listening to Jacob going every five seconds, "I have absolutely NO F---ING idea how to do this." Overall it was pretty amusing and sad, but not enough so to stop us from drawing bones sticking out of our llama's back.

Spanish was pretty good, too, and so was Jazz Band!! I'm SO SO SO EXCITED FOR OUR NEW MUSIC!!!!! We've gotten one of THE coolest songs in history to play, "Superstition" by Stevie Wonder, WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO. IT'S BEYOND AMAZING. IT ROCKS. IT FILLS MY LIFE WITH MEANING AND ROCK.

GO LISTEN TO IT IF YOU HAVEN'T HEARD IT BEFORE.
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IT KICKS BUTT.

Also, it was HILARIOUS, because my band teacher, Mr. D, who is COOL BEYOND BELIEF - really strict and stuff, but who puts up with me and my friends when we go crazy. For example, the other day before our concert I stood behind Mr. D while he was sitting down eating his pizza and began making motions with my hands over his hair, which is super wavy and AWESOME, so everyone started giggling and so he turned around and saw me grinning at him, so soon everyone started standing behind him, and then I sat down right behind his chair and so did all the other girls, so there were like five people in a line right behind them, and then I sat next to him and we started playing bus. XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

But today Jenny and I were singing at the top of our lungs and I told Mr. D that we should start a duet and he informed us that we belonged in padded cells. It was pretty awesome. What was my point? Oh yeah, he told me that I had a lovely, clear singing voice! That's like the only serious compliment I've EVER gotten on my voice, so that was pretty cool.

Anyway, at lunch I made a rosemary wreath for my private trumpet teacher, which he ended up loving, and then had Biology, though today I made myself refrain from having a scissor battle with Rebecca, which happened yesterday. P.E. was boring, English was HILARIOUS, because we're practicing our Theseus script, and then I came home!

OMG YOU GUYS. IT SNOWED.
AND IT NEVER NEVER NEVER SNOWS IN MY TOWN.
THE LAST TIME WAS FIVE YEARS AGO.
AND YESTERDAY MORNING IT SNOWED AND THE WHOLE SCHOOL WENT OUTSIDE FOR LIKE TEN MINUTES!!!!!
It was awesome

AND ALSO KATE IS COMING HOME IN FOUR DAYS!!!!!!! I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!

All right I need to go listen to "Superstition" one more time and then do homework! Talk to you guys later!

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21989779/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21989779/ Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:04:53 PST
My birthday was TOTALLY SWEET. My friends went downtown before school, shopped, and presented me with the following:

A HUGE Jamba Juice
A bottle of Lavender Aroma Bubble Bath
A pair of red mittens
A red scarf
An ornament
A fuzzy stuffed pony (since I requested a pony for my birthday)
Graham crackers
A huge thing of Hersey's chocolate
Mini marshmallows
Huge marshmallows
A pair of fuzzy green and blue socks
Canned tomato soup

And about twelve balloons. They called it "Project Luscious."

I KNOW, RIGHT????

I also got the sweetest pair of pajamas on the planet, some awesome movies, AND MY FIRST CELL PHONE!!!!!!

One of my best friends got her first boyfriend, who is the absolute NICEST, smartest, and most amazing guy in the school, and one of my good friends. I have been doing happy dances of joy all day for them.

I am getting to know a guy at school with a blonde afro who is awesome.

I am finished with my math homework.

There is only one week of school left.

And I get to see Kate in six days.
SISTER BONDAGE SHALL RECOMMENCE SHORTLY IN FULL POWER.

LIFE IS ROCKIN'.

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21901686/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21901686/ Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:16:16 PST
Or pretty darn close, dude. Pretty darn close!

AND NOW I SHALL TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT.
Because my last day of being fourteen KICKED BUTT.

And so here we go.

WAIT HOLD EVERYTHING. I JUST DISCOVERED I CAN SNAP MY FINGERS AND I'VE BEEN TRYING TO FOR OUR SONG "CATNIP SHUFFLE" IN JAZZ BAND FOR AGES AND EVERYONE HAS BEEN LAUGHING AT ME AND I THINK IT'S COMING FROM JOY!!! JOY I TELL YOU!!!!!!! JOY IS RINGING THROUGH MY SOUL REVERBERATING THROUGH MY MIND AND BODY!!!!!! DUDE LIFE ROCKS AND I AM SO HAPPY!!!!!!

And all because of the snap of a finger!!!

Okay, proceed, Christine.
Are you sure?
YUP!
Positive?
HIT IT, SISTAH!!!!!!

OKAY SO!!!!! I woke up actually in a weird mood this morning, because I'd had trouble getting to sleep last - AND THEN MY PARENTS CAME IN AND TOLD ME IT WAS 31 DEGREES!!!!!!! I WAS LIKE WHAT???????????????????????? IT'S NEVER THAT COLD IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY!!!!!!! IT HAD THE POTENTIAL TO SNOW!!!!!!!!!!! DUDE I WAS PSYCHED!!!!!!!!!!!! AND THEN THERE WAS FROST ON THE GROUND!!!!!!

Getting out the door was kind of icky ick, though, because I was a LITTLE late - not to school, but out the door, so my mom drove me even though we live pretty close, and then I had to run to my band locker and stuff BUT I WAS ON TIME so the world was good. We did still lifes (HA I JUST GOT TO ADD THE WORD LIFES TO MY COMPUTER'S DICTIONARY YES!!!!!!!!!) in art and mine went pretty well, considering it was oil pastel! My friends Rebecca and Yuriko and I all began reliving our AWESOME plans to go to Disneyland and then to Build-A-Bear, which changed into a discussion of birthday parties, and how we should totally go to Build-A-Bear for my fifteenth birthday, and then we began talking about birthday parties and about how at my old parties we always used to make a maze out of like eight spools of thread. Each spool of thread would have a clothes pin tied to one end and a goody bag to the other and you had to roll up the spool on the clothes pin and un-maze the whole thing until you got to your goody bag! And Rebecca told us about her awesome Bat Mitzvah and Yuriko about her Japanese birthday parties when she lived in Japan.

AND THEN GUESS WHAT??????????

I DON'T THINK I FAILED THE MATH TEST AT ALL!!! FOR LIKE THE FIRST TIME IN THIS TOTALLY HARD CLASS OF ALGEBRA TWO TRIG I MIGHT MIGHT MIGHT HAVE GOTTEN A HUNDRED PERCENT OR CLOSE TO!!!!!!! IT WAS ON LOGARITHMS AND I HATE LOGARITHMS WITH A BURNING PASSION THAT ROCKS THE HEAVENS YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES
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And then Spanish was good too! We're still finishing orals, which is pretty boring, but I did mine last week, so I was okay. Andy and I kept joking around - Andy's in Jazz Band with me - and I was teasing Matti about we being over since I had written "Christine's birthday - bring presents!!" in his planner and he erased it, so it was pretty fun.

AND THEN, OH BOY, BABY!!!!!!!! JAZZ BAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE AWESOMENESS BUILT UP OF MY BEST FRIENDS IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We had a ROCKIN' TIME PLAYING!!!!!!!! It was hilarious in the beginning because Mr. D came in with his hair slicked down wearing a tux since we have a concert tonight and I was like, "WHOOO-OOOA! SPICY!!!" and then I tried to get everyone else to wolf-whistle with me at him. AND DUDE we played really well in class and Jake and I kept making up all these dance moves and Allie and Dana and I, THE AMAZING TRUMPETS OF LUSCIOUSNESS, were being crazy and making jokes AND THE MUSIC ROCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Life was AWESOME!!!!!! Band is SO SO SO hilarious!!!!!!! Then we loaded up Mr. D's truck for our concert, and Jake and I had a play fight about his being weak and I kept calling all of them my buddy boys and it was awesome.

THEN CAME LUNCH!!!!!!! Lunch rocked. Before I went to my locker, Jake and I did our handshake, which ended in him accidentially on purpose hitting my chest and putting a sticker with stupid looking sheep that was captioned, "JAKERS" on my shirt. xDDDDDD Then we ate in our eigth grade teacher's English class room, and we were being crazy an... ]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21807739/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21807739/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:34:12 PST
I'm supposedly the secretary of the Garden Club at our school (GO COLLEGE APPLICATION BROWNIE POINTS!) so we went today, and they were making rosemary wreaths for the holidays! I'm so excited, we're going to make one for our band teacher and I'm going to do a special one for my private trumpet teacher and my parents.

Speaking of my private teacher, I had a really good lesson today! My lip had been kind of acting up again at the end of band, but I played all the high notes above the staff line really well! He said he could hear my tongue on all my notes and he was really pleased!

On a random note, don't you LOVE all the lights that start going up around town this time of year? They're so pretty!!

Okay, I must go now, homework time! Talk to you guys later!

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21723409/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21723409/ Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:41:55 PST Australia.

The most brilliantly done movie I've ever seen.

I absolutely LOVED it.

I can't describe how much it touched me. Movies can be incredibly influential, and this was one that truly made me think and feel...it was so real and so, so beautiful.

If you can handle intense movies - it was rated PG-13, bordering slightly towards R - then you have to go see it. It certainly touched and moved my heart. It was amazing.

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21705835/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21705835/ Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:59:22 PST
I HAD SO MUCH FUN!!!!! It was a really quiet Thanksgiving here, I slept until about 9:00 or so and then got up and chatted with my parents for a while. We turned on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade a little later and watched it. I LOVE the parade, it's so much fun!! Santa Claus was AWESOME this year, he seemed particularly bouncy, but hey, he's a jolly guy! My dad and I went on a bike ride around eleven thirty, and my mom cooked at home, so we scouted around for pretty things to bring her back, and when we got home around 1:30 handed her acorns, berries, and pine cones to make a center piece with!

And of course, DINNER WAS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!!! My mom is an AWESOME cook! We were totally stuffed by the end of it! I made a huge list of everything I was thankful for with my parents, as tradition demands, and then was totally virtuous and cleaned the rats' cage and gave them carrots and apples and bread for their feast. I took a shower after that and then came on here to say hello to you all!! We're going to go watch Miracle on 34^th Street in a minute, one of our all time favorites!

Man, today was so much fun! I love hanging out with my family. AND I'M SO EXCITED FOR THE REST OF THE HOLIDAYS NOW!!! Thanksgiving especially gets me in the mood in a warm, wonderful way, starting off winter in a circle of love and friendship! I'm quite happy with the world at the moment.

Love you guys, and have an awesome Thanksgiving and enjoy the rest of your break!! Talk to you later!

Edit: Oh man, Kate, if you're reading this, you should hear Mom and Dad right now, they're putting me into hysterics. My dad is making mosquito noises at my mom and is threatening to sing the Batman theme song, which is driving her nuts. xDDDD I told Dad that with all his nature charm, it was a wonder he got married. XDDDDDDDDD My parents are hilarious.

Okay I'm seriously going to bed now. Bye guys!

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21688084/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21688084/ Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:16:57 PST
After just chatting and eating and stuff, I grabbed a spoon and started making kissy noises at myself, which caused my mom to start looking at her own reflection and spewing stuff about convex planes and other stuff and we were both being totally easily amused with my dad groaning and rolling his eyes at us.

Then I began an enormous rant about Dennis Quaid betraying me by growing old, BECAUSE HE WAS THE MOST GORGEOUS YOUNG MALE IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN THE 1970's, which promptly turned into me racing around my parents yelling things like, "Even Romeo and Juliet cannot rival our tragic love story!" and my mom making comments about how she and Dennis are the same age, which led to, "DO NOT FURTHER BREAK THE SHARDS OF WHAT WAS ONCE MY LIVING, BEATING HEART!" and then my mom and dad discussing Dennis Quaid in the parent trap being totally calm and cleaning the dishes.

I love my family. xDDDDDDDDDDD

AND I GOT A CALL FROM KATE TODAY, TOO!!!!!!! We talked for like an hour on the phone, and it was awesome because she called at 2:00 expecting to only get me, BUT BOTH MY PARENTS GOT OFF EARLY TODAY!!!!! It was totally awesome! We all chatted for a while, which was super fun. She's up at my grandma/aunt's house in upstate New York, which a couple hours drive from where she goes to college, so she'll be spending her break with them!

Around 3:30, we went out shopping and got me a bunch of new shirts and some light brown pants and a new sweater, and then went to the Thanksgiving farmer's market, and at 5:30 I went to my trumpet lesson, which playing wise pretty much stunk because over the last four days I've done nothing productive and haven't practiced. xDDDDD Ah, well, the evening was still fun!!!!!

AND I JUST REALIZED FOR LIKE THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE I CAN SNAP MY FINGERS!!!!! YESSSSSSS!!!

AND I'M SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THANKSGIVING TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!

I hope you guys all have a great time at Thanksgiving!!!!!!!! Love your friends, love your family, and love yourself. Life rocks, and there's so much awesome stuff to be thankful for, from gorgeous young Dennis Quaid to your toothbrush to having loved ones with you. Don't let a single moment of it go to waste.

Peace and Love,
Christine

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21670918/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21670918/ Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:02:49 PST
Totally and one hundred percent ready. I've felt fifteen for months, every since school started.

It seems weird, perhaps, that someone can talk about growing up at fifteen, but I feel about a million times older than this time last year, and I'm proud of the way I've handled everything recently. And it's also nice to know that I'm coming out of a growth spurt - god, if I grew any taller I'd bypass the Empire State Building - and I'm not constantly having perverted teenager thoughts and having to eat all the time. xDD But it rocks. Overall, I feel like my thoughts and feelings are maturing in many ways. I enjoy the feeling, and expressing it many ways - conversation, writing, art, music, friendship, love. I love being a human being, and I love being alive.

And so, baby, come December 10th - watch out, world, for a totally awesome new fifteen year old.

AAAAAAAAAAAND I'm supposed to be making a birthday/Christmas list for my parents, since my dad has bugged me about like eight times today. I feel like all I'm asking for is movies. xDDD Here's what I have so far, Dad:

1) Mama Mia
2) WALL-e
3) The Man Who Came to Dinner
4) Enchanted
5) All About Eve
6) cork boards for my room
7) an iPod
8) a really good digital camera
9) a pretty rainbow sweater I saw in a magazine

Hmmmmmmm...I'll have to keep thinking, though considering the iPod and the camera, that's already a pretty big list.

OH YEAH BEFORE I FORGET. I saw Twilight on Sunday! I had like the most fun evening EVER, my friends and I went out to the new pizza joint in town and then wandered around downtown taking pictures of me posing with a Coke machine and Cassie and Emily giving each other piggy back rides and being crazy and then going to the movie. I got quoted on facebook by Cassie while I was petting Edward's face in the poster, saying, "But he's pretty!" which I'm never going to be able to live down now. xDD Anyway, I actually, surprisingly, liked the movie quite a bit, despite my dislike of the books. The one things that bugged me were they zoomed in too much and didn't give Edward the light hearted side he had in the book. But yes, it was good, if you like the books I would definitely go see it.

And now I must take my leave, my mom and I are going to have hot fudge sundaes and watch Contact. LORD, I LOVE VACATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Toodles, people!

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21619100/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21619100/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:19:57 PST
She and I just get into this GREAT conversations. I wish I could record them, or something, because they're just amazing. We talk about life, philosophy, my friendship issues, humanity, the way things work (she's a physicist, after all), school, work, dreams, ANYTHING. But all our conversations can last hours, and they all mean something.

She supports me in absolutely anything I want to do and encourages me wholeheartedly. She accepts me exactly the way I am, and makes it clear every day that she loves me more than she can express. She's the most optimistic, smart, warm person ever and has a love for people and can see the good side in anyone. Everything about her, from the way she dances in her sweat pants imitating Jimi Hendrix with a spoon in her hands while making dinner or talks about the world or teaches me to play guitar by candlelight when we save power at night or cries or laughs, brightens my day.

I just needed to write this out. I feel so incredibly blessed and lucky every day that she's my mom.

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In other note, IT'S THANKSGIVING BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M SO PSYCHED!!!!!! I spent today just doing reading and being lazy and it was AWESOME!!! Tomorrow I'm going to film and see Twilight. I LOVE BREAK!!!!!!!

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21555776/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21555776/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:11:47 PST
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?

A: : BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for
a change! The chicken wanted change!

A: JOHN MC CAIN: My friends that chicken crossed the road because he
recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the
chickens on the other side of the road.

A: SARAH PALIN: Because, praise jesus, I was gonna shoot his sorry
liberal ass off for blocking my view of Russia!

A: HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that
little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely
qualified to ensure right from Day One that every chicken in this
country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this
really isn't about me.

A: GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the
road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road,
or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle
ground here.

A: DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?

A: COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the
satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.

A: BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with that chicken. What is
your definition of crossing?

A: AL GORE: I invented the chicken.

A: JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am
now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about
the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against
it.

A: AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens white? We need some black
chickens.

A: DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize
that he must first deal with the problem on this side of the road before
it goes after the problem on the other side of the road. What we need to
do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his
current problems before adding new problems.

A: OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which
is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the
chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life,
I'm going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across
the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.

A: ANDERSON COOPER, CNN: We have reason to believe there is a chicken,
but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the
road.

A: NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he's guilty! You
can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.

A: PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.

A: MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way that chicken
was going. I had a standing order at the Farmers Market to sell my eggs
when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any
insider information.

A: DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a
toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not
been told.

A: ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain, alone.

A: JERRY FALWELL: Because the chicken was gay! Can't you people see the
plain truth? That's why they call it the other side. Yes, my friends,
that chicken is gay. And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay,
too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination
that the liberal media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like
the other side. That chicken should not be crossing the road. It's as
plain and as simple as that.

A: GRANDPA: In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road.
Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

A: BARBARA WALTERS: Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be
listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heartwarming
story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to
accomplish its lifelong dream of crossing the road.

A: ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

A: JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads
together, in peace.

A: BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken2008, which will not only
cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and
balance your checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral part of
eChicken2008. This new platform is much more stable and will never
crash.

A: ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the... ]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21555674/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21555674/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:05:26 PST
I always have this saying that I use when I really detest something that goes, "I hate ______ with a mighty passion that rocks the heavens," which usually gets a laugh out of people.

And I was just thinking that about a certain subject in school when I clicked on one of my guy friends' facebook profile and he had put that he hated the same subject with the passion of 1,000 flaming lemurs.

Weird, huh?

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21524228/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21524228/ Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:43:16 PST
So, I am, yet again, procrastinating online while supposedly doing my homework. Seriously, dude, the people who invented the internet should have classified it as hazardous to your health. Or to your homework, anyway.

BUT DUDE!!!!!! I have this freakin' hard math test tomorrow!!! I've been working SO hard on this chapter, it's Quadratic Functions, I even went after school for like two hours to get help from my teacher. BUT GUESS WHAT GUYS??????? I HAVE AN A - A SOLD A, NOT AN A- - IN MATH CLASS!!!!!!!!! 92.5 PERCENT IN YOUR FACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M SO PROUD OF MYSELF!!!!!!

Because math is like, my weakness in school. I REALLY REALLY have to work for it. I can't believe Kate, she's off at college doing physics and getting straight A's and all that stuff. She rocks. BUT DUDE I'M SO EXCITED FOR COLLEGE!!! BECAUSE YOU ACTUALLY GET TO DO HOMEWORK ON WHAT YOU WANT TO DO!!!!!!!! Not stuff you really don't enjoy. Dang, I'm excited.

Speaking of being excited, I'm starting Jazz Dancing in January! Isn't that awesome? I'll be able to dazzle you all silly with jazz hands. Lol. Not. But I'm still excited. Except that apparently we have to wear actual dance stuff, like leotards and tights and things, and that means I'll actually have to shave, which I only do like once a week in winter because I'm lazy okay now I'm being totally gross and disgusting so I'm shutting up now.

But still. I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!!! They didn't offer swing dancing, which is too bad, because I REALLY want to learn that, even though I'm really tall, which isn't ideal for being thrown around by guys like you do in swing. But I'm still going to love it. Jazz is amazing.

SPEAKING OF JAZZ MY RANGE ON TRUMPET IS GETTING SO MUCH BETTER!!!!!!!! I think Lolly is the only other trumpet player on here, so she'll know what I'm talking about, but all my notes now, since I'm lead trumpet in Jazz Band, are like C's and D's and E's ABOVE the staff line, which is hard, but I'm getting really good!! I'm so proud. We have all these AWESOME new songs that are way harder than last year's Jazz Band because our teacher really thinks we're all better this year - which from him is really, REALLY extravagant praise, and which he didn't even tell us to our face, but told to the janitor, who accidentally told us - but basically, band rocks too.

And soooooooo...times are good, man! I made another comic for Neopets - it's sad, I quit for like eight months and then I came back. It's weird, I actually don't go on it THAAT much...I just like coming online at the end of the day, it's kind of nice to have half an hour of quiet time on Facebook and email and stuff. Making comics is fun, too, because I use stuff that I get from school and my friends, mostly my guy friends, and it's an excuse to get art in every now and then, especially since I'm so busy. But basically, homework's going well, all my friends are still awesome, I'm hanging out with them a lot, I have great grades, I'm happy, I'm healthy, and life rocks.

Can't get much better than this.

Edit: OH WAIT YES IT CAN. I JUST REMEMBERED THAT THANKSGIVING BREAK IS IN ONE WEEK. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21363444/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21363444/ Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:19:40 PST
We played tonight at the spaghetti feed, and me an Maggie, the second trumpet, did a trade off and we had so much fun with all our songs!!!!! And afterwards about six of us all sat at the same tables being crazy and I bought deserts for all of us and then Cassie accidentally knocked my cupcake to the ground and I ran around chasing her while she tried to buy me a new one and Maggie kept following me everywhere saying we needed to get "spag-hetti," because that's the way she's pronounced it ever since I told her that was the way I remembered to spell it and Aaron, the other trumpet, and Maggie and I were all being crazy and it was SUCH A FUN NIGHT!!!!!!

I love music, and I love my friends. Good times, man, good times.

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21347803/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21347803/ Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:34:54 PST
We were watching the election like everyone else, and when it was declared that Obama was the winner my mom and dad and I all began yelling and then I had to just bury my head in my mom's shoulder and cry...because it was one of the most beautiful moments of my life. For the first time, I feel like we've gotten our country back...like democracy actually exists.

I know I haven't lived long enough to see it all. But I've lived through the Bush generation, and I've been brought up always knowing about politics. And last night - no matter what else has happened - my hero became president-elect, the first African-American to do so, a man who is absolutely amazing and hasn't let politics claw him down.

And going outside and dancing under the moon and howling like wolves and hearing cheering and screaming answering us all over the city...waking up this morning and feeling full of love and joy...and walking to school and seeing my neighbors, good, wonderful people, hugging each other, calling greetings, all awake and sharing the moment...well, I can't forget it. And I won't.

I feel the need to address the opposition, here. I think McCain gave a very, very good speech last night, and while I don't support him in many ways, he gained my respect last night.

And I also want to say that I have infinite respect for all my friends, no matter what their politic views are. On dA, for example, some of the most mature and amazing people I've ever met differ with me greatly on politics. But I just want to say that people like Mary and Gelert are absolutely incredible - because they did what EVERY American should do, and actually researched and became informed about the candidates. It's all these amazing young people who may agree with me, and who may differ from me, that give me hope for America.

It's not who became President of America, it's America itself - and that we are all friends and can remain united in our differences is the greatest beauty there is. It's we the people who do and will make our world great. I think we were reminded of that last night, by both of the men. And hopefully, good times are ahead.

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21306193/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21306193/ Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:28:01 PST
AAAAND...It feels like November, it's been cold and raining and I LOVE the rain!! AND I'll get to see Kate soon, she's coming back to visit for a couple of weeks, and I got straight A's for the quarter. Things are great!

AAAAAAAND...
Tomorrow is Election Day.
May I just say that Barack Obama is my idol, and one of the greatest men whose ever lived.
GO OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21193587/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21193587/ Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:11:55 PDT Just a quick warning - I'm talking about drugs quite a bit in this journal, and what I learned at a presentation today, and if you're worried or don't like hearing about the effects of drugs, you might not want to read it. The facts I heard in school today are rather disturbing and very saddening in places - drugs should never even be used.

I am so lucky to be young, and alive, and with parents who love me and who tell me every day that they're willing to talk, that they'll show me anything about life I want to know about, that will always be there for me, who I can talk to about anything.

And I love being a young person. I love having my whole life ahead of me. I'm excited for growing up, becoming my own person, having adventures, falling in love, and living for years and years...it's forever to me now, and it's wonderful. I can't wait for any of it. It's my goal to someday be the person that anyone can talk to and who has respect where ever she goes.

And I have options...options where so many others don't. So many kids, every year, die of drugs, or of drug related activities...and through them, more than just one life comes apart. Communities, families, friends all suffer at the hand of their death.

We're having Red Ribbon Week this week, which is why I mention it. Today, every fifteen minutes, there was a beep over the overhead and another kid was removed from a class and taken to the library for the rest of the day...to symbolize the statistic that every 15 minutes in America, a teenager or child dies from drugs or being in a car with a drunk driver. I saw the kids being taken away...and upon me, it had the correct effect. By the end of the day, after hearing that beep every fifteen minutes...having three empty desks in a class room that made it seem so lonely and quiet...it built up.

I've grown up lucky and blessed to know how horrible drugs are. Ever since I was a baby, the message about the horrors of drugs have been imposed on me and I have never, ever been tempted. There will always be things in life you can't have - why not make drugs one of them. And yet I am so lucky compared to all the kids that die from them each year.

There was an incredible presentation at our school today, given by a woman who works at an emergency room. There were things in the presentation that we've all heard about - the effects of alcohol, the way it pickles the brain, the dangers of drunk driving and over dosing - but there were things I'd never even heard of.

One was about the new rule in California, and how now, when you get your license in CA, kids have to wait a whole year before driving with someone under 25. Not wanting to be caught with their friends, kids are hiding in the trunks of cars, where they are poisoned by the carbon monoxide flowing from the car into the trunk. Many accidents have occurred - in the last few months, it has become a rule that firemen have to open trunks to check for bodies before disposing of cars. This was a shock, and it was horrible to hear about.

There was another action people take called ghost riding or car surfing, where people climb on top of cars while it was moving. We were shown one video of a man who set his car to spin around and around on its own, climbed on top of it, and fell off and was driven over and over many times. It was devastating.

Have any of you ever heard of something called the choking game?

It was this, in the presentation, that got me more than anything else.

For those who don't know, the choking game is where kids intentionally choke themselves for that moment when all the blood rushes back to their head and they feel high. However, these kills vast amounts of brain cells, and the 8% that survive the game are damaged mentally for the rest of their lives. The choking game becomes addictive - once you start trying to choke yourself, you continue doing it.

In the presentation, they played us a recording which some of you may have heard, for it is currently being played in schools across the United States. It was a phone call to 9-1-1 from a thirteen year old boy name Samuel, who came home and found his twin brother dead, having choked himself to death.

It was horrible to listen to. I cried, it was terrible.

And to think of all of this could be prevented by a little common sense. The sheer stupidity - to ride on top of a car, to choke yourself! Such actions would never have even OCCURRED to me. I don't understand why teenagers must do this - and yet they do. It saddens me how large a part of culture drugs have become - the kids who are innocent, who are persuaded into drugs, who do it willingly.

I could never put my life to risk in this manner. I have learned the lesson and will stay on the correct path. I hope all of you will do the same. Never risk your life on drugs or actions that c... ]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21161031/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21161031/ Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:38:58 PDT
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We're playing it for the pep band, which is an after school club, and basically everyone in band is in it, so everyone knows the song. xDD I have the highest part on trumpet, with A's and G's above the staff line, so I was trying to sing that high and failing and we all kept laughing. xDD

And then we went to the park across the street and they had all these scarecrows the elementary classes had made, and I took my picture next to some of them, and they had all these pumpkins for little kids to paint and they had llamas for some reason, and hawks from the raptor center and then my mom and I came home and watched the BBC version of Pride and Predjudice AND I WANT A MR. DARCY.

Basically it was an awesome Saturday.

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21134118/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21134118/ Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:20:33 PDT Who wasn't smelly or hairy
She rocked the world
And soon unfurled
Wings made out of berries

Now Mary-Berry went up a tree
To fetch a pail of water
But at the top
She had to stop
Her face full of laughter

For in the clouds so high above
She saw in the sparkling blue
Some rainbow balloons, spelling the words
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU"

Christine raised her eyebrows
And slowly leaned back in her chair
And she decided
With a nod of her head
That this lameness was too much to bear

And, alas, my dearest friends
I'm afraid I must bid you good night
I'm supposed to be doing my Bio homework
And it's now past midnight

But all of you dudes, do take heed
Of the awesomeness Mary inspires
It is her tight mien
That made me so keen
To write a poem before I retire

And Mary, my wonderful wonderful friend
I really have just got to say
You add jazz to my life
You're sugar and spice
And so, HAPPY BIRTHDAY

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21100735/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/21100735/ Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:55:42 PDT
I also feel like I'm getting a lot closer to a lot of people at school, which makes me really happy - I'm becoming close friends with eighth graders in Spanish and stuff, and some other ninth grade girls who I was always friends with but never really close. Don't you just LOVE that feeling when you have a bunch of friends who you can have fun with, and be yourself around, and get to that stage where if you glance at each other out of the corner of your eye, you both start cracking up? It's AWESOME.

Switching gears a little here, I had a weird dream last night that it was Halloween night, and all my friends had AMAZING costumes and I didn't, so like fifteen minutes before we went trick-or-treating I decided to be an old woman. xDDDDD So I was running around looking for a wig and asking my mom if I could borrow a turtleneck of hers, and was getting all excited to carry around a soup can as part of my costume, because in my dream it was logical that old ladies and soup cans go together. xDD And then we started out, like ten minutes late, to go trick-or-treating and these boys started following us and one of them shot me! I didn't die, I didn't even feel it, but we all ran inside and locked the doors of my friend's house and stuff. XDDDDDDDDDDD It was bizarre.

BUT...I think it's telling me I need to get a move on and decide on my costume. xDDDD For a while I thought it would be funny to be a garbage can, and dress the top of me as a raccoon, but I'm not wildly enthusiastic about it. I really wish I had my aunt's Egyptian headdress, I want to go as Queen of the Nile. xDD I dressed up as that a while ago and it was really fun. Maybe I could be a 40's woman or something, I have this old beaver coat one of our friends gave me. I'll think of something.

I need to go, because it's dinner time, BUT REALLY QUICKLY!!!!! MARY, I'M SO EXCITED FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!! Everybody, be sure to go give her TONS of love on the 24th!!

Okay dinner. Love you guys! Toodles!

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/20929434/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/20929434/ Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:17:19 PDT
It finally feels like it, too - the leaves are changing colors, the air is cold, the wind is brisk! It's been a wonderful last few days, and I'm really loving it. Today was a great day. School was kind of stressful, but then after school when I was at my locker this eighth grade boy came up to me and said, "Hi, random person!" and I laughed and said hi back, put my books in my backpack, and when I got up to leave, he said, "Bye, totally awesome amazingly tall cool person I just met two seconds ago!" and I told him to have a good weekend and he said the same to me.

That absolutely made my day. It was just one of those random acts of kindness that absolutely made me just fill with love. I hope more people are like that boy - you have no idea how much of a difference it can make.

Anyways, I walked one of my favorite dogs for half an hour this afternoon, came home and went on Facebook and chatted with people for a while, and then called my sister Kate, who's at college. We talked on the phone for an hour until her cell phone battery collapsed, then went on Instant Message, then went on video chat for two hours, and my dad and I even brought her to the table when we ate dinner. It was so awesome! I love Kate!

And by the way, this song is the most inspirational one I've ever heard:

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I can see clearly now the rain is gone
I can see all obstacles in my way
I can see clearly now, the rain is gone
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It's gonna be a bright, bright
sunshiny day

I think I can make it now, the pain is gone
All of the bad feelings have disappeared
Here is the rainbow I've been prayin' for
It's gonna be a bright, bright
Sunshiny day

Look all around, there's nothin' but blue skies
Look straight ahead, nothin' but blue skies

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It's gonna be a bright, bright
Sunshiny day

I love life.

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/20814012/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/20814012/ Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:46:52 PDT
BUT ANYWAYS THE REASON I CAME ON. YOU ALL HAVE TO GO WATCH THIS VIDEO. DO IT NOW. It's officially one of the best things on youtube:

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]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/20674229/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/20674229/ Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:53:53 PDT

1.Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4.

"this corpse-maker mongering death"

XDDDDDDDDDDD COULD THAT HAVE BEEN A BETTER LINE? Dude. Awesome. It's from the epic poem Beowulf, if you were wondering, which we're reading in Classics, which is my drama/English class.

2.Stretch your left arm out as far as you can.
I couldn't touch anything. DDx I lack in arm flexibility. Oh, wait, I can hit my elbow against my chair. Ow.

3. What is the last thing you watched on TV?
The Republican Debate...a couple weeks ago? I know, exciting. I don't watch TV.

4. Without looking, guess what time it is:
5:37

5. Now look at the clock. What is the actual time?
5:42
OH DANG, WHO WAS CLOSE?? Give me some of that love, babeh!

6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
Crackers. I'm a very noisy cracker eater. That'll be my new goal in life. To eat crackers quietly. Except that wouldn't be fun.

Okay, speaking of life goals, you know what Lucas and Ryan told me today? We switched seats, so I was sitting with them in Art and painting, and they told me that I need to paint wallpaper for a living, and that I'll make millions. It was freakin' hilarious. And then we talked about corn mazes, and how cutting straight through them is illegal, and about how if we were seriously going to die, if we would actually die for someone else. It was a pretty awesome Art class, to be honest.

7. When did you last step outside? What were you doing?

Ten minutes ago, because I was locked out of the house. Jenny and I were eating a pomegranate, and trying to stab a pomegranate seed with a stick. Our aim was sad.

8. Before you started this survey, what did you look at?
Mary's DA page.

9. What are you wearing?
A knee brace, jeans, a brown low cut shirt, and cracker crumbs.

10. Did you dream last night?
YES. IT WAS SUPER WEIRD. My mom, grandma, and aunt were taking me to see the newest "James Harriot movie," which doesn't exist, of course, and then we got chased by the police and there was this whole dinosaur display. It was very weird.

11. When did you last laugh?
With Jenny, having said some ridiculous thing.

12. What are on the walls where you are?
A picture of a mouse opossum, a couple paintings, and a hanging thing that saying "LOVE."

13. Seen anything weird lately?
YES. YOUR FACE. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH BURN!
...just kidding I love you guys.

14. What do you think of this quiz?
It's making my shoulders ache. For some weird reason.

15. What is the last film you saw?
Hoot.

16. If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy?

I'd donate to homeless people or something.

17. Tell me something about you that I don't know.
I got really hyper during math today because my pencil matched my shirt and Caitlin's pencil matched HER shirt and it's exactly three months until Christmas!!

18. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?

I would get rid of absolutely all pollution, or do something to save people, like the people in Darfur or something.

19. Do you like to dance?
Love to.

20. George Bush:
He's an incompetent chimpanzee who doesn't realize all the horror he's done to the world, and wouldn't understand it if someone explained it to him. No offense to any supporters.

21. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
Ecuador Rodriquez Lucy Penny Lunes Martes Meircoles Jueves Viernes Sabado Domingo I Know The Days Of The Week In Spanish Dude Smith Jones Barbara Soup Ann McDonald.

22. Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?
Cody

23. Would you ever consider living abroad?
Yeah, England or somewhere in Europe.

24. What do you want God to say to you when you reach the pearly gates?
You get to have tie-dye wings.

25.Tag six people who must also do this in THEIR journal:
Anyone who wants it, steal it, man. It's free.

WHEEEEEEE that was fun. HOMEWORK TIME! Later, people.

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/20459463/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/20459463/ Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:52:06 PDT
I can't BEGIN to tell you how much fun I'm having in school!! Seriously...there's nothing better. My day starts in art, and so I get to spend an hour, usually in the garden sitting next to Eliot and talking about crazy, random, and sometimes incredibly personal things. It's a really nice feeling, he's one of my closer guy friends, just to talk to him and draw flowers and what not. AND I LOVE THE CLASS, OH MY LORD!!!!!! It's so amazing. And then there's math, which is HILARIOUS, and JAZZ BAND. I'm the lead trumpet this year!!!!!!!!!! I've been soloing AND doing well AND been being totally hyper and hilarious and completely myself, and LOVING all the obnoxious eighth grade boys and having teasing wars with them and reminding the other trumpets to get their pencils AND EVERYTHING IS SO PERFECT!!! I LOVE Jazz Band! WE JUST HAD OUR FIRST CONCERT LAST NIGHT!!! It rocked. And Classics, my English class, which is half English half drama, sort of, is going AMAZING, and we're doing skits in a modern adaptation of Beowulf and I get to be Beowulf, who's a totally gangsta' middle aged garbage collector, and I love ALL my friends and I GOT NEW RATS LAST SATURDAY and, man.

Life is just perfect. There isn't one thing about it I would change right now. I LOVE being a ninth grader! You get to be a teenager and something so much more, I love school and my teachers and all my friends and how wonderful everything is socially and everything. This is just perfect.

Hope you guys are all doing well!! Just wanted to give you a little update. Talk to you all later!!

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/20174668/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/20174668/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:30:04 PDT
I've been watching the Democratic debate these last two nights, and man, both the Obamas and Hilary Clinton are some of my biggest idols. Michelle Obama was last night, and she was incredible, as was Hilary tonight. They're such amazing people...they're so good, and they're right for this country, for the future of America. Go Barack Obama!

And with that, I'm off to bed! I probably won't be on for a while, so good luck to everyone over the coming year! Bye for now!!

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/20129852/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/20129852/ Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:17:40 PDT
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"Hakuna matata!
"That's not Spanish!"
"HEE HEE HEE!"
"We're doing business here!"

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/20121557/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/20121557/ Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:32:21 PDT
I've been incredibly hyper. xDD And totally obnoxious. But that's only because I keep getting really excited and putting on airs, BUT I'VE BEEN HAVING SO MANY GOOD IDEAS TOO!!!!!!!!!!

Obnoxious wise, I was running into Kate's room and yelling, "Miss me? Miss me? Miss me?" and then out, and then run back and be like, "DID YOU FORGET ME YET????????" and then taking our fake ukulele from Mexico, which has four plastic strings and pathetic tuning and playing it, and getting ice cream and accidentally dropping some on the floor and telling my mom she could eat it. xDD

BUT OKAY I HAD SOME OF THE BEST IDEA EVER IN MY WHOLE LIFE!!!!!!!

Great idea number one: SLINKY EARRINGS. Originally, I made myself a slinky nose and got Kate to pull on it, BUT THEN IF THEY WERE EARRINGS, THEY WOULD BE ALL BOING-Y!!!!!!!!! It would be SO AWESOME!!!!!!!

GREAT IDEA NUMBER TWO: OKAY HERE'S WHAT I'M TOTALLY GOING TO DO. I'M GOING TO TAKE LIKE A HUGE PICTURE OF MYSELF ALL GORGEOUS IN A SWEET TOTALLY RADICAL POSE WITH LIKE RAINBOW CLOTHES AND THEN MAKE EVERYTHING, LIKE THE BACKGROUND, BLACK AND WHITE EXCEPT ME, AND PUT HUGE RAINBOW LETTERS AT THE BOTTOM SAYING SOMETHING LIKE, "CHRISTINE; The Musical" or "CHRISTINE THE QUEEN" AND THEN PRINT IT OUT POSTER SIZE AND SIGN IT AND GIVE IT TO KATE AND SHE CAN HANG IT ON HER DORM WALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ISN'T THAT AWESOME????????
I'm so excited. xDD

Jenny and Tessa want one two. AND SOME DAY THEY'LL BE WORTH MILLIONS ON eBAY!!!!!!

I suggested Christine bedspreads, but my family called me egotistic. xDD Which is true when I'm hyper.

AND THEN I FOUND A SKI HAT. And put it on. And danced around and was acting all luscious. And I kept calling Kate toots. xDD And singing Phantom of the Opera in a chipmunk vibrato voice. And doing a ton of other crazy stuff. I'VE BEEN HAVING SO MUCH FUN BEING LOUD AND EXUBERANT.

Okay but I'm calming down now. xDD Not for long, I can tell, but I'm still having fun being crazy. I'm so horribly annoying when I'm hyper. xDD Ah, well.

ANYWAYS THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS POST WAS THUS:

WE WENT TO SEE HAIRSPRAY. WHICH HAD AN AMAZING CAST. INCLUDING THIS REALLY FAMOUS DUDE FROM MADTV OR SOMETHING THAT THE PROGRAM SAID WAS IN HANNAH MONTANA AS THE "NEIGHBOR" OR SOMETHING, BUT WHO I'VE SEEN OTHER PLACES ON TV. AND A BEAUTIFUL GUY TO PLAY LINK. AND AN AMAAAAAAAAZING CAST.

It was MY LIFE. On stage. In converse shoes with confetti coming out of the ceiling on a circular stage WITH AMAZING DANCERS and singers.

It was AWESOME. You have no idea how radical it was. AND I WORE MY NEW DRESS! And it was so fun. xDD

SECONDLY - I GOT MY SCHEDULE!!!!!!!!!! And it rocks!!! I have at least three classes with all my friends, and got to switch into Classics, which is like a drama-advanced English class mix. AND IT ROCKS!!!!!! I'm so excited for it now!!! And best of all, it made it feel like summer again, for the last few days! Seriously, though, it was GREAT to see everyone's faces. I was there for like an hour, even though getting my planner and schedule and turning in forms and such only took about ten minutes. xDD I was having so much fun talking to everyone and running around and hugging people and it was just great. xDD Jack dyed his hair black, and Travis's hair somehow got curly under his new hat, and all my friends were great and it was so fun!

AWESOME THIRD THING - I'M FINALLY GETTING A CELL PHONE!!!!!!!! The last person in the school to get one. BUT FINALLY!!!!!!!! I've been arguing with my parents about it since seventh grade, AND FINALLY I talked them into it and we agreed on stuff. AND I'M SO EXCITED NOW!!!!!!!

AND ALSO. I'm starting dance classes this year. I'M SO SO SO EXCITED!!! I haven't decided what yet - either belly dancing, tap, or...I don't know. xDD I'll have to see everything they offer. I should have kept with ballet, even though I only did it for ten weeks in kindergarten and hated it. xDD But looking back, I realize it makes you really flexible, which I am so not, and gives you good balance and makes you a really good dancer at other stuff.

AND WE'RE GETTING NEW RATS SOOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M SO SO SO SOOOO SOOOO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay I need to go dance now. xDD I'll talk to you guys laaaater! Toodles!

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/19975690/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/19975690/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:28:05 PDT LEGALLY BLONDE, THE BROADWAY LAST NIGHT. OH MY GOSH. OH MY GOSH. It was the second time I've watched it online, BUT IT WAS STILL AMAZING. And I kept melting all over Emmett's voice. HE HAS AN AMAZING VOICE. It's luscious. It makes me squeal. xDD

DUDE I LOVE THAT MUSICAL SO SO MUCH!!!!!!! My mom and Kate both liked it, but I think I'm the only one who'S totally hooked. xDD I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!!!!!!! I totally have this HUGE respect for Laura Bell Bundy and Christian Borle. They ROCK. GOSH I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!

Speaking of being hooked, I finished The Battle of the Labyrinth today!!! It's the fourth book of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Okay, so I discovered those books when I was like in fifth grade, BUT I LOVE THEM. They're like totally my PMS books. xDD They're so hilarious.

Slight Spoiler Alert - Okay, seriously, Percy and Annabeth need to hook up. xDD Percy's such a doofus. In a realistic way, of course. But it's like, have your ah-ha moment and realize Annabeth is right there! I remember the only time I really, really liked a guy, as in he was a really good friend and he always made me laugh and we had a great time together - I totally remember getting that ah-ha! moment where I realized I really liked him. Percy needs one of those. DUDE I love these books. xDD They make me so happy!

Anyway! I had a good day today! I was really lazy this morning. It's weird, for the last few nights I've been sleeping really restlessly and stuff. I think it's because my pillows changed and they're uncomfortable. xDD But every night for the past few days, I've had a dream like where I'm in a Broadway musical or at school or something that requires a lot of action and focus, and I wake up early and uncomfortable. I don't feel like I didn't get any sleep, just...not well rested, really. Anyways, I read and ate like three cheese and crackers and a third of a burrito, and then Tessa came over and we hung out and went to the pool and got pizza and breadsticks and stuff because we were starving and then we came back and talked and a little while after she went home, and then I called Jenny and stuff, AND WE'RE ABOUT TO HAVE SPAGHETTI FOR DINNER, so life is pretty good. Not a bad day.

Hope you guys are all doing well! For those in school, HAPPY FRIDAY!!! I'll talk to you all sooooooooon!

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/19932070/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/19932070/ Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:30:13 PDT
Man, I have a trumpet lesson today...first one in seven weeks, good lord. I played for like an hour last night, and my lips held out better than I thought they were going to, but my tone was about where I guessed it would be. xDD

AND I'M GOING TO BE STARTING SCHOOL IN LIKE TWO WEEKS AND I'LL BE LEAD TRUMPET IN JAZZ BAND AND I'LL HAVE TO PLAY TONS OF A'S AND B'S AND C'S ABOVE THE STAFF LINE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

Okay. xDD I'm good. I'll just have to practice a couple hours a day from now on.

I can DO this!

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/19922429/ http://ChristineZehQueen.deviantart.com/journal/19922429/ Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:22:07 PDT
You know what I did with Jenny?

Put crayons in a tree all day.

HECK YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was SO. SO. FUN. xDD Before you call me a total freak, let me explain:

Okay, so we're making this movie preview that's going to be TOTALLY dramatic. There's these two rival groups of people - A kingdom of crayons and a Clan of markers. They're totally arch enemies, and their territories are separated by a huge wall (a.k.a. the wall in my backyard). In our story, the daughter of the Clan leader of the markers meets a young and poor boy crayon named Indigo, and the two fall desperately in love with each other. But this cannot last, for war breaks out between the two lands and their love is torn apart when the Clan leader of the markers discovers what his daughter is doing. The two have a terribly parting, for though neither believe in the war, they get confused and the marker gets mad at Indigo for going to war to defend his people, or something along those lines. xDD Basically, the Clan leader of the markers tries to prevent his daughter from ever seeing Indigo again, but she still loves him and...WHAT WILL HAPPEN???

DIRECTED AND CREATED BY CHRISTINE AND JENNY
STARRING A PAIR OF BRILLIANT ACTORS NEVER SEEN BEFORE ON THIS SCREEN - A BRIGHTLY COLORED CRAYON AND A SMALL AND FIERY MARKER.

COMING TO YOUTUBE SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE, ON A COMPUTER SCREEN NEAR YOU.

Anyway, that was AWESOME. xDD I'll put up a picture of me and Jenny by the tree later.

The neighbors probably think we're so weird. xDD If they don't already.

And then we were boiling hot, so we went to the pool, which was amazing, and then Jenny went home and I showered AND WE'RE HAVING BURRITOS FOR DINNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Life rocks right now. xDD This, my friends, was a good day.

]]> ~ChristineZehQueen